Warren faces question over law license in latest accusation to roil Senate race

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Fox News:

In the latest charge to roil the tense Massachusetts Senate race, Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren was accused this week of potentially practicing law in Massachusetts without a license.

Cornell law professor and legal blogger William Jacobsen made the claim on his Legal Insurrection website. He said Warren's legal practice is listed as the Bay State but no records show her having a license to practice law there.

Jacobsen says he found no law license under Warren’s last name or her maiden name, Herring, during an exhaustive search of state records. Jacobsen said he also confirmed with a clerk at the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers that Warren has never applied for a license.

Even so, it remains unclear whether Warren has violated any laws.

Issues about Warren’s legal practices began surfacing last week in her first debate with Republican Sen. Scott Brown – one that punctuated what has become a hard-hitting, razor-close race. An average of polls by the RealClearPolitics website has Warren leading by less than 2 percentage points.

Brown -- who on Thursday repeatedly referred to Warren as "professor" during the candidates’ first debate -- reminded viewers that Warren in 2009 represented Travelers Insurance Co. before the Supreme Court in an asbestos-related case.

Warren had to have had an active state bar license when applying to try cases before the high court, according to the Supreme Court. So the more questionable issue appears to be whether Warren practiced state-level law from her Harvard office without a Massachusetts license.

Warren was paid $212,000 for three years of work in a case that involved thousands of asbestos victims and was “notable because Warren, who has gained fame for defending consumers against big business, was in this case working on behalf of a big business,” The Boston Globe wrote.

In addition, Warren, as a Harvard Law professor in 1995, attempted to help the LTV steel conglomerate avoid paying $140 million in benefits to retired coal miners, The Boston Herald reported Tuesday. Warren wrote a petition to the Supreme Court challenging a lower court ruling for the miners. The high court never took up the case, but Warren was paid roughly $10,000, according to documents obtained by the newspaper.

The Warren campaign had not responded to requests to verify whether the candidate has a license in Massachusetts or elsewhere.

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Fake Indian, fake lawyer?

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Posted on September 25, 2012 by John Hinderaker in 2012 Election, Elizabeth Warren

Has Elizabeth Warren Been Practicing Law Without A License?

 

Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign is, I think, going rapidly down the drain. On top of her affirmative action fiasco comes another scandal: it appears that she has been practicing law in Massachusetts without a license for some years.

 

Credit William Jacobson, who, like Warren, is a law professor, for the discovery. Jacobson has been one of the most effective members of the blogosphere over the last couple of years, and this story is a tribute to his dogged investigation. His initial post is here. Jacobson establishes that Warren is not licensed in Massachusetts, and never has been; that she is not currently licensed to practice law anywhere; that Warren repeatedly listed her Cambridge, Massachusetts office as her law office in court filings; and that Warren in fact practiced law out of her Cambridge office. If all of that is true, as seems incontestable, Warren has a lot of explaining to do.

[saveliberty]

This was reported in the Coffee Shop yesterday morning. The scoop came from Legal Insurrection.

[Valin]

William A. Jacobson of Legal Insurrection has been all over this. He's got a real thing about Liz.

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Candidate who used High Cheekbones and Pow Wow Chow Indian stereotypes upset at people who used Indian stereotypes

 

 

Posted by William A. Jacobson Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 9:29am

 

 

{See video at the link.}

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2002 – Elizabeth Warren charged $675 per hour as special legal consultant

 

 

 

Posted by William A. Jacobson Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 3:11pm

 

Elizabeth Warren and her supporters have mounted an argument that what she did at her office in Cambridge for private litigants was not the practice of law.

 

Warren herself, when confronted by a reporter after it was revealed she had no Massachusetts law license, claimed she was not practicing law. Her campaign later clarified that she was not practicing law “in Massachusetts” when she practiced law at her Cambridge office. Warren denies ever appearing in a Court located in Massachusetts.

 

That defense is becoming more and more comical as more facts come out showing that as far back as 1995 Warren used her Cambridge office to render legal services for which she was paid at least hundreds of thousands of dollars. Warren still refused to disclose the full extent of her legal practice, pretending that all she did was write a few briefs.

[saveliberty]

Elizabeth Warren listed Cambridge as “primary practice location” with Texas Bar

 

 

Posted by William A. Jacobson Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 5:36pm

Elizabeth Warren has touted that she has been a member of the Texas Bar for a long time, along with New Jersey.

 

We knew that Warren currently was inactive in Texas, but didn’t know for how long. Also, there has been a mystery as to why she withdrew her New Jersey membership on September 11 of this year, which has had the effect of taking out of public view whether Warren was active in New Jersy and for what years.

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Update today. They found a Mass. case with a Mass. client that she represented...

 

LINK

[Valin]

Elizabeth Warren listed Cambridge as “primary practice location” with Texas Bar

 

 

Posted by William A. Jacobson Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 5:36pm

Elizabeth Warren has touted that she has been a member of the Texas Bar for a long time, along with New Jersey.

 

We knew that Warren currently was inactive in Texas, but didn’t know for how long. Also, there has been a mystery as to why she withdrew her New Jersey membership on September 11 of this year, which has had the effect of taking out of public view whether Warren was active in New Jersy and for what years.

 

That's swell...what does that have to do with Ma.? Is there a reciprocity agreement between these different States?